The 68-year-old tells CBS Sunday Morning's Jim Axelrod that the president asked for her advice about using Twitter: "I said, 'I think you should tweet. It's a new way, a new technology. And if you want to get your words across rightly, without telling the New York Times, which is going to twist every single word of yours, this is how you get your message out."

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She says Donald Trump offered her the job as ambassador to the Czech Republic.

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"My ex said, 'Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,'" Trump told the New York Post at a fashion show in September. The Czechoslovakia native turned it down though, explaining, "It’s four years in Prague, so bye-bye to Miami, bye-bye to New York in spring and fall, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in summer." That didn't sit well with current Czech President Milos Zeman, who "was furious" when Ivana told him she decided not to accept the diplomatic post, according to the Prague Daily Monitor. Zeman said he could not imagine a better candidate for the job than Ivana and called her a "coward" for turning it down.

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Her memoir is coming out soon.

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Ivana's Raising Trump will be released on October 10. The book covers Ivana's journey from communist Czechoslovakia to New York, where she became a businesswoman and wife to Donald, and "unfiltered personal stories" about her children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. The three of them contributed "memories" to the book and are reportedly "excited" about their mom's latest endeavor. Buy Now $18.88

The pair met in 1976 at an Upper East Side watering hole, and Donald offered to help her party get a table. He clearly charmed her because the pair married less than a year later. Over the course of their relationship, Ivana became entrenched in the Trump Organization, working as the Vice President of interior design, and later as the president of Trump's casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza hotel.

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She's a former model.

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It seems Donald Trump has a type. Ivana started her career in front of the camera in her native land, the former Czechoslovakia. After she moved to Canada with her first husband, Alfred Winklmayr, things really began to take off. Some of her notable clients have included the "Got Milk" franchise, designer Auckie Sanft, and Eaton's department store. She first met Donald Trump while working for the 1976 Olympic Games. In a recently unearthed on-air radio interview with Howard Stern from 2002, Donald Trump said that Ivana's accent had charmed him in the beginning but eventually began to irritate him. "Yes, it was amazing," Trump says of his ex-wife's accent, "and then one time I woke up that [sic] it was terrible, I couldn't stand it.

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She was photographed for Town & Country in 1986.

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Thirty years ago, we sent a photographer to Mar-a-Lago and Ivana Trump answered the door in head to toe sequins. She and Donald had recently paid $5 million for the house, which they eventually turned into a private club. During the renovation, Trump reportedly spent $7 million on gold leaf alone.

Shortly after her highly publicized divorce, Ivana began to establish herself independently as a businesswoman. Not only did she write books, but she also launched branded perfumes, clothes, and jewelry. In 1996, she made a cameo in The First Wives Club (above), with the now legendary line, "Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember...Don't get mad. Get everything!"She's also the one who gave Trump his signature nickname: The Donald.

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She's a reality star in her own right.

In 2006, Ivana starred in the hilariously titled Ivana Young Man, (trailer above) a reality special where she helped a wealthy, middle-aged woman named Kathy find (as the show's name might suggest) a younger man. Sadly, there was only one episode. She also appeared on the British version of Celebrity Big Brother in 2010.

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Despite a nasty divorce, Ivana and Donald are now friends.

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When Donald and Ivana got divorced in 1992, the press had a field day, splashing news of his affair with Marla Maples across tabloid covers. However, some 20 years later the couple gets along, and he even considers her something of an adviser. "We speak before and after the appearances and he asks me what I thought," she told the New York Post. She also thinks he should "be more calm."

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She fully supported her ex-husband's run for the White House.

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"He's no politician. He's a businessman,"she told the New York Post. "He knows how to talk. He can give an hour speech without notes... He's blunt," she said, adding that he would have "fantastic advisers, like Carl Icahn. Really brilliant minds. And he'd make a decision! Obama cannot make a decision if his life depends on it. It's ridiculous."

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Donald aside, Ivana prefers young Italian men.

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Ivana has been married four times, but her later two engagements were both to strapping young Italians. "I have this thing for Italians. I don't know why, but the bad boys—not all of them, but the sort of semi-bad," she told Oprah in 2013.

And while she and her most recent husband, Rossano Rubicondi (pictured here) separated in 2008, they are still romantically linked. "With Rossano, we adore each other," she said. "Who knows what will happen. God gave us the second chance, and we'll see."

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